Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-02
LICENSE C0LUM
Edited by the Good TempIars Lodge
LICENSE OR NOT? WHICH?

| Ills DallOt Is concerned. his pIANhO60
is no less, and he alone can exercise
it and with him alone rests all the
responsibility of the result of the
election to the extent OF the influence
of his vote i'll bringing it about.
In determining this question, he
should not reason simply as to the
effect of the result of the election up
OH himself, but should consider that
he is one of the favored ones; half OF
the adult citizensl who WELD the power
which affects for good or evil the
other and better half and the children
who will be the future voters
and into whose hands the
welfare of our country will be COM
mltted. We who are thus favored
do not go forth with lance and shield,
rs did the valiant knights of yore, to
bleed and die for those whom they
loved, but, armed with that effective
weapon, by which the affairs of our
nation are shaped, the freeman sI6al-
lot we can if we will go forth, subdus
and chain the enemy, whose every
movement is against the interests OF
those whom we love the best, but
who are powerless to defend them
selves. Let us as voters carefully con-
slider the advantages claimed to
accrue to the village from the saloon
traffic, and after making the most OF
them, offset them with only one or
two of the evils incident to it, and
then let conscience dictate our votes.
Well, the village receives $l6OO at
present from the saloons fol which
1t permits them to sell their drinks.
Under the new law this amount Will
be increased to. two thousand the
coming year if the four places now
licensed are allowed to continue and
wish to do 50. Where will tins two
| thousand dollars come from, the sa-
! loon keeper? Mott comes from voters
| (andminors) some from the village and
the country adjacent, who give it to
| the treasury for the privilege or
! giving the saloons $4,000 besides. We
voters constitute the saloons ladders,
through which we strain our money,
at least $4,000, they taking all that
| goes through, and we what is left.
This has been $1,000, but an extra round
| has been put into the ladder and we
| can hereafter have $4,000, if we wish
1t. What do we get in exchange for
| this 5000? Bad drinks, bad habits,
| bad oder, and bad names. 1t is also
said that some of our farmers, who
now do their trading in this village,
would 90 elsewhere but for the
saloons, and that therefore, general
! trade Is better than it otherwise
would be. 1t is not the true friends
of the farmers who say this. The
farmers who have been interviewed
express joy at the prospect of the
saloons being closed, aud say they
can then safely send their SOUS to
Morris with their products and that
they will in all ways do all III their
power to aid the county seat in its
reformation.
| This movement is not against the
saloon keepers, who have, so far, been
our authorized agents, but is against
the business we, as a village have
been engaged i'll; for the best interests
of our wives, sisters, sons and young
brothers, suggest that it will not pay
us longer to deal i'll alcoholic drinks.
The following farmers were asked
the question il saloons are voted out
of Morris will farmers from your To-
cality go to other places to trade. No
indication was given as which way
they were expected to answer and
the following ia the result:
One saloon keeper says his license
this year will cost him ($1000.0O five
hundred dollars to defeat No License
and five hundred to pay my license
afterwards.
HERMAN ZAHL.
1t would not affect me any. / do
not think it would drive any trade
from Swan Lake away from Morris.
What we farmers want is good
market.
WM. FOLEY.
1t won't drive me away from Nor
ris.
ANTON ANDERSON.
No trade from Framnas would be
driven away. If any one should 60
to other places to trade it would bt
such an element as would not be
missed in Morris. / would rather
the saloons were voted ont and know
of forty other farmers who feel as l
do.
CLAUS. OsTERBURG.
The farmers around me would all
like to see the saloons closed. wish !
could vote with you.
LEWIS HUDSON.
For my part I wish the saloons
: were closed. It's the market that
draws the farmers to town, not tile
saloons.
THEODORE LINDSTAD.
would be glad TO see the saloons
closed. / don't think that the farmers
will draw their wheat away from
Morris on account of the saloons be-
ing closed. ! can't. see how it will
1
be happier and better,
? JOHN PAINE.
hope they will drive the saloons
from Morris. l have seen whisky
sold here to II boy not Is years old
r It will do the town no harm but wall
do it good.
ED. MOORE.
You bet l will vote and work for nc